Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During the Time of Lord Chancellor Brougham and Sir John Leach, Master of the Rolls, Volume 2Saunders and Benning, 1835 - Equity |
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... interest taken by each of the testator's nieces in the 2000l . legacy did not become absolute on their respectively attaining the age of twenty - one , but continued to be subject to an executory bequest over in the event of their ...
... interest taken by each of the testator's nieces in the 2000l . legacy did not become absolute on their respectively attaining the age of twenty - one , but continued to be subject to an executory bequest over in the event of their ...
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... interest was to become vested . The case at bar fell within the latter description , and was to be decided upon the same principle as Slade v . Milner ( a ) , Hinckley v . Simmons ( b ) , Ommaney v . Bevan ( c ) , Galland v . Leonard ...
... interest was to become vested . The case at bar fell within the latter description , and was to be decided upon the same principle as Slade v . Milner ( a ) , Hinckley v . Simmons ( b ) , Ommaney v . Bevan ( c ) , Galland v . Leonard ...
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... interest , and a remainder limited upon the deter- mination of such interest ; from whence it may be argued , that had he intended to restrict his nieces to a life in- terest in their legacies , he would not have left his inten- tion ...
... interest , and a remainder limited upon the deter- mination of such interest ; from whence it may be argued , that had he intended to restrict his nieces to a life in- terest in their legacies , he would not have left his inten- tion ...
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... interest on surviving the widow , that is , the clause was read , " in case of their death during the lifetime of the first taker . " It is hardly necessary to remark how close this case comes to the one at bar . Indeed the two cases ...
... interest on surviving the widow , that is , the clause was read , " in case of their death during the lifetime of the first taker . " It is hardly necessary to remark how close this case comes to the one at bar . Indeed the two cases ...
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... interest , from an absolute interest in the capital sum , into a life annuity in the event of her leaving a child at her death , we entirely destroy the first part of the clause , which provides for the interest vesting at twenty - one ...
... interest , from an absolute interest in the capital sum , into a life annuity in the event of her leaving a child at her death , we entirely destroy the first part of the clause , which provides for the interest vesting at twenty - one ...
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Page 355 - ... publication, and all such other matters relating to the conduct of suits in the said Court as the Lord Chancellor, with the advice and assistance of the Master of the Rolls and Vice Chancellor, or one of them, shall by any general order or orders direct...
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Page 498 - ... sealed, and delivered in the presence of and " attested by two or more credible witnesses, or by her
Page 778 - And in case there be no children nor any legal representatives of them, then one moiety of the said estate to be allotted to the wife of the intestate, the residue of the said estate to be distributed equally to every of the next of kindred of the intestate, who are in equal degree and those who legally represent them. VII. Provided, that there be no representations admitted among collaterals after brothers
Page 489 - That it seems to have been considered, in that case, that a communication, by the trustees, to creditors, of the fact of such a trust, would not defeat the power of revocation by the debtors.' It appears to me, however, that this doctrine is questionable ; because the creditors, being aware of such a trust, might be, thereby, induced to a forbearance in respect of their claims, which they would not otherwise have exercised.
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Page 218 - ... an act, made in the first year of the reign of king William and queen Mary, intituled, An Act for exempting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of certain Laws...
Page 91 - ... such person or persons as she should, by her will, direct and appoint ; and in case his said mother should die without a will, then to such person or persons as would be entitled to the same by virtue of the Statute of Distributions.